Quality Sense Podcast

We're closing season 5 of Quality Sense Podcast with an interesting interview with Ben Dowen, also known as the Full Snack Tester. Alongside Federico Toledo, they will discuss all things Pair Testing.

Today's guest is Micaela Rodriguez! She's joining Federico Toledo for another episode of Qualit Sense Podcast! They tackle the testing hurdles within agile setups, from shifting priorities to rapid iterations. Reflecting on the shift from waterfall to agile, we explore its value propositions and fundamental changes. Personal anecdotes highlight the perks of agile, like quick iterations, while also addressing hurdles such as outdated practices. Join us as we delve into the nuances of testing in agile environments, showcasing both the triumphs and tribulations.

Our guest for today is Mark Tomlinson! He's a Performance Engineer and Consultor with more than 20 years of experience in the field. He's the creator of the term Performacology which he'll be explaining all about in today's episode.

Today's guest is a performance enthusiast. He is the Co-founder and Performance Engineering Director at OctoPerf. Today we welcome Guillaume Betaillouloux to Quality Sense Podcast!

Today's guest is Darrel Farris! a dear friend of mine. He's a Partner at Abstracta and a US Country Manager, and has been in the industry for over 20 years! Let's jump right into the interview and explore QA in the field! -------------------------------------------------------------------

Today's guest is Noel Wurst! He's the director of Storytelling at Smartbear. He's responsible for building communications strategies, and managing public relations initiatives, and also has a deep, personal interest in helping build diverse, inclusive, and balanced workplace cultures. Join him and Federico on this episode of Quality Sense Podcast! -------------------------------------------------------------------

Today's guest is a very special one, and it is an honor to have him on the show. He has more than 15 years of experience in Software Testing and has contributed to the community in many amazing ways. Joe Colantonio is the host of the most popular podcast about software testing. He is the founder of Test Guild, and has recently released his book Automation Awesomeness! Join Federico and Joe on this episode of Quality Sense Podcast! -------------------------------------------------------------------

We're starting the fifth season of Quality Sense Podcast with a hot topic! Federico Toledo will be discussing genAI and its impact on our daily work, alongside a very special guest! We've been waiting a long time to chat with her on the show and we're very excited to finally have her on the very first episode of the season! She's Vera Babat, Abstracta's Chief Culture Officer. Vera is a clinical psychologist, passionate about bringing together psychology, philosophy, entrepreneurship, nature advocacy, and interculturalism. -------------------------------------------------------------------

We are closing this cycle of Quality Sense with a very interesting guest... Maaret Pyhäjärvi, has more than 25 years of experience in software testing, and is constantly sharing her knowledge and helping others. She has experience organizing conferences around the world, meetups, and more. Maaret is currently working at Vaisala as a Principal Test Engineer. In today's episode, we talked about the challenges of organizing and attending conferences, and we dived into the topic of exploratory testing. How to define it, the challenges of building trust around exploratory testing, and more. So for the last time this year, get comfortable, grab a snack and enjoy!

Vaishali Padghan is responsible for different quality initiatives, trying to deliver quality products faster at J.P.Morgan where she has worked for almost a decade. She empowers teams to continuously improve by leading automated testing strategies and quality transformation. Today we'll bring real and high-risk scenarios where test automation is key for the success of JP Morgan software development teams. Get comfortable and enjoy the second to last episode of the season!

Alan Brande is the CEO and Co-founder of Light-It. Combining his two passions, software and medicine, he helps healthcare start-ups and organizations build successful software products and scale their development teams. In the episode, we'll discuss the challenges that working in the healthcare industry entails, the importance of testing software in this field, and more.

Matias Fornara is a Senior Leader at Abstracta and has been working in the industry for more than 10 years. In today's episode, we discussed everything Test Automation, how to ensure its quality, and much more. Episode Highlights Matias' start in the industry and his transition to Software Testing. His take on how to continuously improve the quality of your test automation. Opportunities for improvement within a team Matias' Test Automation Manifesto

Mukta Sharma has been in the world of testing for over a decade and is very active on social media where she shares her knowledge with her community. She often gives advice to those interested in the world of testing through her social profiles. In this episode, we'll discuss Defect Management and some tips on how to create a good and useful LinkedIn profile to reach your professional goals and more. Episode Highlights The importance of Defect Management Best practices when reporting a bug The importance of Communication Building a professional social media profile For relevant links and the episode's transcript go to: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/quality-sense-podcast-mukta-sharma-defect-management/

Gev Hovsepyan is the Head of Product at mabl with over a decade of experience in Software Product Management, Analysis, and Development for B2B SaaS and PaaS products. He is also an Agile advocate with proven ability to successfully capitalize on emerging market trends at large and small companies. In this episode, we'll discuss the topic of Accessibility Testing, its importance, how to make it a part of your development workflow, and more. Episode Highlights What is Accessibility and why should we care about it? Gev's experience with Accessibility Testing Is it possible to automate it? How much of it? How Gev sees the future of Accessibility Testing and his advice for testers to get ready for it. For the episode transcript and relevant links, check here: https://abstracta.us/blog/software-testing/quality-sense-podcast-gev-accessibility-testing/

In todays episode, I interviewd Lewis Prescott. He is a QA Lead at Cera Care and has worked across testing projects including property management, e-procurement, electronic trading platforms, and government. In different areas such as Functional, Automation, and Performance Testing. We talked about contract testing, its advantages, and how it can be paired with API testing. Our takes on pair programming and more. You will also get a glimpse into Lewis's fatherhood and how becoming a parent changed his perspective as a leader. Episode Highlights How Lewis' background in Psychology led him to a career in Software Testing. What the challenges related to quality and testing in the health care industry are. For the episode transcript and relevant links, check here:

Andrew Knight, better known as "Automation Panda". He describes himself as a software enthusiast, with a specialty in test automation and behavior-driven development. And he is a developer advocate at Applitools. They'll discuss Test Automation at Scale, how to keep up with changes in the system, how to maintain the quality of your test suite, and more. Episode Highlights How Andy got into software testing and specifically, automation testing. Doing test automation at scale. How expensive can making a mistake within a 10 people team vs a much larger one can be. How to distribute tasks within an automation testing team and its importance. For the episode transcript and relevant links, check here: https://abstracta.us/blog/software-testing/quality-sense-podcast-andy-knight-test-automation-at-scale/

Nicola Lindgren is an experienced Senior Test Engineer, QA Lead, and Manager for ustwo. She's worked on projects in many different industries such as trade, education, and e-Commerce. She founded the Stockholm Software Testing Talks meet-up and co-founded the WeTest Auckland testing meet-up. She has also recently published her second book “How Can I Test This” which she will tell us about. We'll talk about Implicit Requirements, where we should look for them, how to make them explicit, and much more. Episode Highlights How Nicola ended up in Software Testing. What her definition of Implicit Requirements is Where should we look for them? And how do we make them explicit? For the episode transcript and relevant links, check here: https://abstracta.us/blog/software-testing/quality-sense-podcast-nicola-lindgren-implicit-requirements/

S4E02 - Eran Kinsbruner - The future of mobile applications by Federico Toledo

S4E01 - Paul Holland - From computer science, to pilot, to tester. by Federico Toledo

As the New York Times best-selling author, Brené Brown says, "Leadership is not about titles or the corner office. It’s about the willingness to step up, put yourself out there, and lean into courage." In today's cultural and work environment, we're no longer capable of avoiding sensitive and pressing issues, but many leaders are paralyzed by the fear of making mistakes in the way they address them. This is especially true when it comes to addressing concerns around diversity, equity, and inclusion. That's why, in this final episode of season 3 of Quality Sense, I'm so pleased to share my recent conversation with a leader in the DEI space. Ash Coleman has had a very unique and interesting career path that has led her to her current role as the Head of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Credit Karma. Before that, she was a professional chef and then later, she got into testing. These professional experiences have led her to understand what goes into making amazing experiences and products that meet the requirements for a diverse population. What I enjoy about this conversation is that Ash breaks down some of the most simple things you can do as a colleague, leader, and just as a human being in your daily life to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion that will make a positive impact. Episode highlights: - Why the role of quality engineering helps companies be more inclusive - Pros and cons of having a distributed team and its impact on diversity - Reverse discrimination, racial and gender equity in the workplace - How important representation is at work and its impact on employee retention - Three simple ways individuals can help promote DEI For the episode transcript and relevant links, check here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/ash-coleman-diversity-equity-inclusion/

Simon Prior is a co-host of the Testing Peers podcast (https://testingpeers.com/) as well as an advocate for bridging the gap between academia and industry. Having been a university professor myself, I found we had quite a lot in common! Simon Prior is a senior test manager at Easy Jet, with many years of experience in testing and management. Not only that, but he helps run a meetup group, Ministry of Testing Buckinghamshire and started the hashtag, #MakeATester to increase awareness outside the testing bubble about careers in our field. In this episode, we discussed how to form more people in STEM with the skills needed to become great testers and how to make our profession more well known to those who have yet to graduate from university!

Ashley Hunsberger started as a manual tester at Blackboard 16 years ago and today, she’s the Director of DevOps Engineering, creating their Developer and Agile Advocacy program. She focuses on the ways they can advance the work their teams are doing, as well as the way in which they do it. Listen to this fascinating conversation about how she managed to evolve her career and all of her eye-opening, real world insights on leadership that apply for anyone. Key highlights: - The need for innovation, experimentation, and learning in a DevOps and agile culture and methods to promote them within your team - Our challenges in adopting OKRs and lessons learned - Developing psychological safety in the workplace and why its essential for leading through change - How testers can safely innovate by testing out a series of hypotheses - The benefits of practicing reflection to improve your ability to cope with change and find a way to do the work you love Relevant links and a transcript of this episode can be found here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/leading-agile-transformation-ashley-hunsberger/

Today’s guest is an inspiration for any test engineer out there who wants to drive their organization’s quality engineering and shift-left testing practices, working in a way that devs and testers can best collaborate. Get to know Andrey Momot, a QA Lead at WalkMe, the company that pioneered the Digital Adoption Platform to simplify user experiences by combining insights, engagement, guidance and automation capabilities. In our conversation, Andrey shares his keys to success in a team where developers are in charge of manual testing and the QA lead owns the overall test and automation strategy. Episode highlights: - Collaborating with developers when you are the team’s sole QA - How to sell the idea to developers to manually test their own code - The test automation solution that WalkMe has success with - What Andrey calls the “holy trinity of quality” and how teams can achieve it Find relevant links and a transcript of the episode here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/andrey-momot-software-quality-holy-trinity/

My guest today, Sumit Agarwal, has over 20 years of professional experience in the technology field. Today he is the Lead Cloud Architect at a global fintech company, with experience in performance testing, DevOps and agile methodologies. Listen to today’s episode where we discuss the origin of DevOps, testing and dealing with legacy code, making the necessary culture shifts to successfully implement modern software delivery practices and more! For relevant links and a transcription of this episode: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/devops-and-testing/

A self-proclaimed "stage mom" and "recovering social worker" Tristan fell into test automation and community management a few years ago by taking a new role at Sauce Labs and hasn't looked back. In our conversation, we talked about the meaning of community, how testers can take more advantage of their network, overcoming imposter syndrome, and much more. Episode Highlights: - Tristan's story of falling into software testing after his career in social work and how he brings his non-profit skills to the B2B world - Why all the hype around communities and how professionals can enhance their careers by getting involved with them - Why Testim bets on developing community and its potential to amplify value for all - Tristan's top 5 recommended reads for software testers Episode transcript and relevant links: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/tristan-lombard-building-community/

In this episode I had a conversation with Erika Chestnut, Head of QA at Calendly. She started her career as a developer, but after complaining about quality a few times too many, she found herself learning more about software testing. Today she is a Quality Coach, mentor, consultant, and a keynote speaker. Listen to the episode to learn about how test automation plays a role in Calendly’s test strategy, and as with every guest, her advice for testers on good habits, recommended reads, and more. Episode Highlights: - How Erika first learned about testing and why she is passionate about it - Building a solid foundation for automation - Pros and cons of having the developers at Calendly drive test automation - How they align the developer’s test automation efforts with non-automated testing driven by the testers in order to cover what’s important at the different layers and to avoid duplicate tests - Involving DevOps and Customer Experience to perform stakeholder testing Check out relevant links and the transcript of the show here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/erika-chestnut-calendly-test-automation/

Are you looking for a new job or want to become a more hirable tester? Today I invited my first guest from the team at Abstracta, Stephanie Gordiola. You may recognize her on LinkedIn as the one who spreads the word of new opportunities to work at Abstracta! "Steph" is a psychologist and English teacher who has been on our team for two years, recruiting, interviewing, and helping to hire software testers from all over, with different levels of experience and areas of expertise. Among other things, she’s helped us to hire 52 testers and counting. Listen to today's episode if you want an inside look into our software testing recruiting and hiring processes. Highlights: - What testers should keep in mind when going through the recruitment process - The importance of soft skills and how recruiters can assess them - Allowing for authenticity and how it enriches a company's diversity - Ways to increase the chances of hiring someone who is a great fit - Things you should do every day to get better at a foreign language Go here for the episode transcript and relevant links: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/recruiting-software-testers/

Have you thought about making the switch to a commercial test automation framework? In this episode of Quality Sense, Katya Aronov shares how she managed to lead an organizational effort at her company, Trax, to involve devs in their quality processes, using Testim to create useful, stable, and reliable test automation. Episode Highlights: - What is needed to create useful automation that benefits the whole team - How can you be sure to make the best decision when choosing a tool? - Why open source tools are not as free as we think - How testers and devs can best collaborate, advocating a culture of quality Check out the episode transcript and relevant links:

Season three is here and we start it off with a brand new topic and featured guest, a rising speaker and blogger in the testing community, Laveena Ramchandani. Seven years ago she fell into testing, working in different industries from oil and gas to finance to consumer goods. Today she is exploring a new area: data science model testing. Currently, 80% of UK businesses are looking to hire a data scientist or seek data consultancy. So, someone needs to go in and validate those models! Listen to the episode to learn how to she's testing a data science model, the testing process her team follows, advice for anyone getting started in this area, and more! Episode Highlights - What is a data science model and benefits it can bring for a business - Risks when testing data science models to be aware of - How she plans her testing activities -Skills needed to be a tester in a data science project and advice Check the transcript of the episode here and relevant links: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/testing-a-data-science-model/

Today, I want to do something different. I gave a talk at this year's Agile Testing Days called “How to Keep Testers Motivated.” This is a very important topic for me because I manage the operations of a company with more than 100 testers. So, the high motivation of those working with us is a key factor for success. Success for the company, for the different teams and success for the people working with us. Listen to this bonus episode that finishes up season two of Quality Sense if you want to hear some tips (and mistakes to avoid) when it comes to successfully leading software testers! For the transcript of this episode, visit: https://abstracta.us/blog/culture/how-to-keep-software-testers-motivated/

In today's episode, I interviewed Anand Bagmar from India. He has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry and today he's a Quality Evangelist and Solution Architect at Applitools. In this episode, we will learn more about visual testing and how it can enhance your test automation. Of course, we talked about Applitools, which is one of the best tools for this kind of testing. If you are involved with or interested in test automation, you will learn some very important things about it, including the importance of following a value-based and risk-based approach. Read the transcript of this episode here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/visual-testing/ Get a free trial of Applitools: https://applitools.com/ Access courses to improve your test automation skills: https://testautomationu.applitools.com/ Follow Anand on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BagmarAnand

Today I will share with you a conversation with Andreas Grabner, or Andi as we all know him. From Austria, he has more than 20 years of experience in the field, always sharing his knowledge about performance engineering, especially through his podcast called Pure Performance. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences, I think I’ve met him in every conference related to performance, in different countries. During the interview we talked about why performance engineering is so enjoyable, also, we visited some basic concepts related to performance testing in Continuous Delivery, because I wanted to talk about Keptn, the open source project that Andi has been working on during the last couple of years. I really admire how Andi can explain a lot of very complex concepts easily. Without further ado, let’s listen to the full interview. Enjoy! Episode highlights: - Understanding SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and Quality Gates - How performance engineers can avoid becoming a bottleneck themselves - Improve the quality of your software with self-service performance engineering using open source tool, Keptn For more notes, links, and a transcript, go here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/introduction-to-keptn/

Today, I'll share a conversation with Ian Goddard from the UK. He is a very experienced tester and public speaker. He’s been working in software testing and automation with products related to broadcasting, video streaming and most recently, in virtual reality, using your mobile phone or specific devices such as special lenses. We discussed the challenges of testing this type of software which for me was something that I was very curious about. Let’s listen to this conversation! For more notes, links, and a transcript, go here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/testing-virtual-reality-software/

In today’s episode, I’ll be interviewing Bas Dijkstra, from the Netherlands. He’s an expert on test automation, offering training and consultancy therein. I’ve seen Bas trigger some very interesting conversations on Linkedin so I wanted to discuss them with him on the show. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about how to deal with false positives and negatives in test automation and how a tester can contribute in unit testing efforts! Episode highlights: - What should a tester’s involvement look like in unit testing? - How to become a better test automation specialist - Building reliable automated tests: how to avoid false positives and negatives? - An important philosophy/book he recommends for being more successful and productive For more notes, links, and a transcript, go here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/quality-sense-podcast-bas-dijkstra/

In this Quality Sense episode, I had a chat with Júlio de Lima, an engineer at Capco, who recently completed his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computing (Artificial Intelligence) and also co-founded GaroaQA, a meetup group with four locations across Brazil and over 2,000 members. Episode Highlights - The complexity of analyzing the huge amounts of data that software performance tests provide - Using machine learning to solve data issues by giving meaningful insights about what happened during test execution - How he used K-means clustering, a machine learning algorithm, to reduce almost 300,000 records to fewer than 1,000 and still get good insights into load testing results For related links and the transcript, check out this article: abstracta.us/podcast/julio-de-lima-machine-learning-performance-testing

Today, I’m going to share with all of you my conversation with Elisabeth Hocke, mostly known as Lisi Hocke. She’s a very recognized tester in the agile testing community, she won the award for “Most Influential Agile Testing Professional” in 2019. Also, you may know her for her approach to personal challenges, which will be our main topic of conversation today. We also discussed her recent article “I Am white” where she shared her thoughts and learning journey related to the privileges white people have over others and how to be more aware, learn more and act. I loved the whole conversation with Lisi. I hope you can learn something new from it, a new perspective or new questions to ask yourself, maybe, a new personal challenge. Enjoy! For a transcript of this episode and relevant links, check: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/quality-sense-lisi-hocke-personal-challenges/

Today, I'll interview Mike Lyles. Even though we've been in contact for so many years, this was the first time we got the chance to finally speak. Mike is a director of QA and Project Management with over 25 years of IT experience. He has recently published a book called The Drive-Thru Is Not Always Faster, where you can learn a lot about leadership, and actually this is the main topic that we will be discussing today! Episode highlights: - How an excuse to go to Tampa, Florida resulted in Mike getting into software testing - The difference between being a manager and being a leader - Why he wrote a book and the journey that lead to it finally being published - Why work-life balance is(or should be considered)a fantasy - The power of social media to learn from others in the industry See the transcript of this episode here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/quality-sense-podcast-mike-lyles-testing-leadership/ Follow Mike on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikelyles Visit his book website: http://www.thedrivethrubook.com/

Quality Sense is back for season 2! Did you miss us? In this episode, I invited Fernanda Sesto, an entrepreneur, Rochester University student, and former Abstracta tester, to share a bit of what it was like for her to start working in testing at the ripe old age of 18! Episode highlights: - What she wished she knew when getting started in software testing - What its like to work from Latin America for clients in the United States - The differences between studying technology and actually working in it on the ground, in the real world - Mistakes to avoid and tips for success in your first year of testing Read the full transcript and more info here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/fernanda-sesto-advice-getting-started-software-testing/ Connect with Fernanda on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernanda-sesto/

One of the most beautiful lessons I’ve learned over the last few months? Podcasting is so much fun! Especially, when friends and colleagues (who happen to be people you admire) say yes to come on and share about what they know, about their experience, about what they are learning or even what they are struggling with. In this Quality Sense episode, I want to give a short summary of what I’ve learned while talking with the great people that I had the chance to interview, to close out this first season. Let me know who you want me to interview next. See you soon!

In this episode I interviewed my Latin American brother, Leandro Melendez, from Mexico, also known as "Señor Performo." He's an expert on performance testing with almost 20 years of experience in the software industry. He frequently speaks at testing conferences and shares content about performance in his youtube channels and podcasts in English and Spanish. For example, he is one of the hosts of the PerfBytes Podcast(check it out here https://www.perfbytes.com/). In this interview, we discussed about basic and complex concepts around performance testing sharing our war stories from the different projects we have participated. For a full transcript, check out our blog: abstracta.us/blog/podcast/ Leandro commented about my Spanish book about software testing and also recommended some other performance testing books and habits, specially helpful in this current lock down situation.

In this episode I interviewed Michael Bolton, one of my personal heroes in testing, someone who makes you think outside the box, and is known for stirring up great debate! In this long interview, I just asked a couple of simple questions and Michael shared with us lot of insights about software testing, automation, algorithms, AI, etc, and most importantly, about how he entered a career in software testing (which by the way, I haven't heard about it before). Also, we commented about his trip to Uruguay when he attended TestingUY as a keynote speaker. For a full transcript, check out our blog post: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/quality-sense-podcast-michael-bolton/ To learn more about Michael as well as his and James Bach's Rapid Software Testing Courses and methodology, visit: https://www.developsense.com/index.html

For this episode, I interviewed my friend, Sofia Palamarchuk, CEO and co-founder of Apptim, a tool that helps you to test and analyze mobile app performance(www.apptim.com). She is also a Director and Board member of my company, Abstracta (www.abstracta.us). Highlights of this interview: - Sofi told us about her journey from tester to CEO, Board Member and co-founder - We discussed what affects the performance of a mobile app (server side, network and client side) - Challenges in native mobile apps in Android and iOS to monitor and gather information to optimize the performance - Typical types of issues in native apps(like memory leaks, rendering time, excessive CPU and battery usage) - Observability for mobile apps - And at the end, she suggested a very interesting book not related to testing at all!! Hope you enjoy the talk! If you want to read a transcript, we will publish it soon here www.abstracta.us/blog You can try Apptim for free here: www.apptim.com

For this episode, I interviewed Oren Rubin, the CEO and founder of Testim (https://www.testim.io/, a leading innovative product in the Web test automation domain. He has over 20 years of experience in the Software Industry building products for developers. Highlights of this second part of the interview: - We discussed about how AI can help test automation - Best practices applied to test automation - What Oren hates and loves about Cucumber - Scriptless testing tools vs Visual Editors (is that the same?) - Also, Oren told us about how we got into testing - And at the end, he suggested a very interesting book not related to testing at all. Hope you enjoy the talk! If you want to read a transcript as you listen, check it out here: https://bit.ly/2NEGGaI

For this episode, I interviewed Oren Rubin, the CEO and founder of Testim (https://www.testim.io/, a leading innovative product in the Web test automation domain. He has over 20 years of experience in the Software Industry building products for developers. Highlights of this first part of the interview: - We shared the funny story of how we met (thanks Angie Jones!) - We discuss the pesky challenge of test automation: dealing with flaky tests - Oren also talked about many test automation tools, highlighting the main differences between them including Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer, and so on. Hope you enjoy the talk! If you want to read a transcript as you listen, check it out here: https://bit.ly/2NEGGaI

In this episode I interviewed Lisa Crispin, one of "las madres del agile testing", an expert and great contributor to our field. You can learn more about her here: https://agiletestingfellow.com/. You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/30ZPHmA Highlights: - We discussed what this new term "Observability" is and how it's related to monitoring, testing and even chaos engineering. - Lisa talked about the open source project, OpenTelemetry and mentioned different tools that help to implement observability. - At the end she suggested a book if you want to learn more about Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Observability Of course, we are going to talk also about how collaboration and pairing is a great way to learn and improve whatever you do!

In this episode I interviewed Eric Proegler, an expert in performance testing and test management as well as the president of the Association for Software Testing(https://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/). You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/2YeEgG6 Highlights: - How certain industry's systems are tested like contact tracing apps for COVID-19 or aircraft software(think the Boeing 737 MAX disaster) - Software quality certifications: When are they needed and are they really useful? - Test documentation, context-driven testing, test automation vs manual testing. - How Eric discovered he'd rather be a software tester than a developer - A super important skill for testers: learning how to disagree politely

In this episode I interviewed Alon Girmonsky, CEO of UP9 (https://up9.io), the only automated solution to test microservices. He also founded BlazeMeter among other technology-based companies. Nowadays we are collaborating together on the mobile testing platform, Apptim (https://apptim.com), where he is the main advisor. In this episode, we discussed the challenges in testing systems with microservice architectures, considering tools to help with the testing, automation and observability together. He told us about UP9 and as usual, he suggested some of his favorite books and told us about some great habits to adopt and others to avoid. You can also play the episode and access the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/2CiMxjC

This is the second part of my interview with Alan Richardson, better known as "Evil Tester." We discussed many topics related to software testing automation. You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/2YPSr3r In this second half of the interview we covered: - Testability, automatability and observability - How to show ROI of automation, learning about selling - How Alan got started in software testing - The book he recommends for learning how to ask questions Side note, I'm thrilled to announce that Quality Sense was included on feedspot's list of top software testing podcasts! Thanks to all of you out there listening! https://blog.feedspot.com/software_testing_podcasts/

This is the first part of my interview with Alan Richardson, better known as "evil tester." We discussed many topics related to software testing automation. You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: bit.ly/2YPSr3r In this first half of the interview we covered: - Learning test automation by automating games - Ways to improve your test automation, like using JavaScript and modifying DOM elements - Thinking tactical vs strategic - The importance of critical thinking in test automation - The "Agile way" - Using bias and skills of different individuals to form the best teams - API vs GUI test automation - How to reduce costs and optimize your time

Interview with Paul-Henri Pillet, CEO of Gatling (gatling.io), one of the leading performance testing tools for web applications. First we discussed challenges for performance testers in times of crisis and then, Paul-Henri told us about the the story behind Gatling. He also shared some habits and a book that I think can help you to become a better leader in software testing. You can play and also access the transcript of the episode here: https://bit.ly/30Y2FRT

In this episode I interviewed Janet Gregory. She told us about her experience adapting the agile testing training she and Lisa Crispin offer in Agile Testing Fellowship, to make it available online with remote facilitation. We discussed the challenges for agile teams working remotely and some ideas to overcome it (pairing, clarify communication channels, stay connected). Lastly, she commented about her trip to Uruguay when she was the keynote speaker at TestingUY and, as usual, she suggested some books and told us about some good habits she has implemented. You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/3ehzLjJ